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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 05:21:25 GMT, Goran Larsson wrote:
> > In article <3B687EDF.9359F3FC@mediaone.net>,
> > Ed Falis  <efalis@mediaone.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Read the report.
> >
> > I have. Your point is?
>
> Perhaps read it again.

Looks like I need to read the report again aswell. :-)

IIRC, the problem was related to excetion handling of a hardware fault...not
exactly a Ada programming bug, but more a technical design bug...?

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